This Day in History - Today in History with a distinctly Australian Flavour

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Sunday, August 25, 2019

Australian Explorers
1828 -	Explorer Allan Cunningham discovers Cunningham's Gap. [more]
Australian History
1853 -	Francis Cadell launches Australia's first paddlesteamer, the 'Lady Augusta', from Goolwa. [more]
1909 -	Long Bay Gaol in Sydney is opened. [more]
World History
1944 -	Paris is freed after four years of German occupation. [more]
1967 -	A sniper shoots and kills the leader of the American Nazi party, George Lincoln Rockwell. [more]
1989 -	Space probe 'Voyager 2' transmits the first ever pictures of Neptune. [more]

Thought For Today People who are proud will soon be disgraced. It is wiser to be modest.
Proverbs 11:2 (c) GNB
Nothing satisifies an Aussie more than seeing some arrogant sod come a cropper. Don't get too proud or you might be next!